Islamic rare books at McGill

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The Islamic rare books at McGill is made of a number of collections in a variety of Islamic and European languages:

the Islamic lithographed books collection includes approximately 700 volumes of which 264 in Arabic, and the rest in Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Urdu covering a wide range of literary and scientific topics

the Islamic Studies Urdu collection includes approximately 3,700 printed volumes, of which 300 lithographed, embracing all aspects of the South-Asian Islamic culture

the Ibrahim Müteferrika Incunabula collection includes 13 volumes published in Istanbul between 1729 and 1742 covering non-religious disciplines, primarily History and Geography.